Negative Camber

[chui1980]

Sorry but since i am new to this i decided to go straight to the point. I have global west tubular arms on my a body 69 lemans custom s and when i aligned the car i realize i had too much negative camber so i removed all the spacers on each side. Now i have just about 5 deg of negative. Is that normal for a protouring or the control arms could be defective. What is the story. Car also has 2" drop spindles with stock coils for now.

[UMI Tech]

Camber is the inward tilt of the wheel toward the engine. With all shims removed if you have five degrees you have something amok.

Can you attach some photos?

[BMR Sales]

Yeah 5 Degrees Neg is a lot and you say you had even more! - there is something weird going on.

T.C.

[MrQuick]

Sorry but since i am new to this i decided to go straight to the point. I have global west tubular arms on my a body 69 lemans custom s and when i aligned the car i realize i had too much negative camber so i removed all the spacers on each side. Now i have just about 5 deg of negative. Is that normal for a protouring or the control arms could be defective. What is the story. Car also has 2" drop spindles with stock coils for now.

Would you have the part number for the arms you are using and where you bought your parts from? We had run into a similar issue with a Chevelle and using the Negative Roll arms and drop spindles. We could not get less than 3 degrees negative.

[chui1980]

let me just correct something. the whole remark of being 5 degrees negative was an assumption. I never measure how many degree. It just look like somewhat 5 deg. Let just work on a pic.

[chui1980]

here is the pic of front wheel without shims



here is a pic of the car

[j-c-c]

That's 2 Degrees negative.

edit:

That's a tongue in cheek reply, that i'd bet Dr Pepper is pretty close. IMO 2 degree will handle great with everything else in order, but you need to be real friendly with your tire dealer, tires get eaten up quick, not sure if from alignment, or the constant need to reform that grin that pops up after every hard cornering application. I don't see anything over 3 neg on the street, and at some point braking starts to decline, and not a great tradeoff again, IMO for street manners

[chui1980]

what would be the max negative you can have to be a good drivable car

[Rifleman_Racing]

Max? 4 or so and still drive good. Honestly 2 degrees is probably what you want.